Offering information and analysis to
understand the rise of White supremacy and other systemic oppressions in the
current time and climate. And offering strategies, skills, and models of
advocacy to resist oppression and its normalization.

This session is
meant to help immigrants (and those who care about immigrant communities) to
understand their rights when encountering law enforcement, what to do to prepare
yourself and how to create contingency plans in face of an emergency, as well
as to provide information about potential legal options. The session will also
engage us to challenge law enforcement when their actions erode our basic
constitutional rights.

When most people
hear about children ripped from their families, they think of faraway places or
centuries past. The reality is it's been happening in the U.S. for
centuries-and is happening today. Native American children are more than twice
as likely as non-Native children to be taken from their families and put into
foster care. In Maine, a group of Native and non-Native leaders came together
to acknowledge and address the abuses suffered by Native children in the hands
of the child welfare system. This is their story. Sponsored by Institute for New England Native American
Studies, Native
American and Indigenous Studies, Transnational
Cultural and Community Studies

This teach-in will
introduce and explain the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions (BDS) movement in
Palestine and connect it to other liberatory movements and struggles, both in
the US and around the world. Plus info will be
provided about how to get involved.

A workshop to
explore creative ways to establish a balance between engaging in sustained activism
and self-care. How can we contribute our own skills and resources for change,
given one's position and role?We will
explore advocacy and ally roles and highlight how to make intentional, informed
decisions about contributing in a way that is not damaging to oneself.

4-6:45
Screening of 13th(W-1-004).

Followed by discussion with Sarah
Mayorga-Gallo and Sociology 200: Race and Ethnic Relations class.

A documentary by Ava
DuVernay (director of Selma), which
provides an in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it
reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

4-5:30
Social Dominance and the Theory of Gendered Prejudice (Y-2-2120).

Jim Sidanius,
Professor in Psychology and African and African American Studies at Harvard
University

Jim Sidanius
presents his new model, the Theory of Gendered Prejudice (TGP), which
demonstrates that men and women exhibit distinctly different patterns of
discriminatory behavior: 1) the tendency for males to display higher levels of
xenophobia, discrimination, social predation, and dominance than females, 2)
the tendency for discrimination to be directed more toward outgroup males than
outgroup females, and 3) the differing motives for discrimination of each gender.
Sponsored by Conflict Resolution, Human
Security, and Global Governance

For students of
color who are feeling stressed, anxious, or fearful in the current
social/political climate. Workshops focus on learning strategies to cope during
these difficult times, including understanding racism and its impacts, the role
of awareness and self-compassion in fostering well-being, and strategies for
choosing meaningful actions that are nourishing, empowering, and resist
oppression.

PLUS:
Monday 11am-6pm Take Back the Night
Events and Activities (Ryan Lounge)

For students of
color who are feeling stressed, anxious, or fearful in the current
social/political climate. Workshops focus on learning strategies to cope during
these difficult times, including understanding racism and its impacts, the role
of awareness and self-compassion in fostering well-being, and strategies for
choosing meaningful actions that are nourishing, empowering, and resist
oppression.

11-12:15
Mobilize, Defend, Organize: What does a Trump Presidency
Mean for Working People? (Healey-04-31)

Steve Striffler, Director of Labor Studies.
With Labor Studies 210: Labor and
Working-Class History students

This session will
explore how a Trump presidency impacts the lives of working people, the ability
of labor groups to organize, and the prospects for building a more equitable
world.

12-1
From Ferguson to Palestine: Building Solidarity Across Local and Global Social
Movements

This teach-in
session will focus on the implications and necessity of transnational activism
against systemic and structural violence through an anti-colonial framework. In
line with a participatory, critical pedagogical approach, participants and
presenters will co-engage in thinking about strategies for decolonizing
education and engaging with anti-oppression struggles.

1-2:
What Is Normal?: Queer Resistance in the United States
Aaron Lecklider,
Department of American Studies

This session will
think broadly about how LGBT activists have used cultural tools to resist both
oppression and efforts at "normalizing" (or assimilating) queer
communities. We will think carefully about how lessons from the past might be
invoked—and are being used—to build a movement for the present.

2-4:
Student Activism: The Color of Mental Health: Wellness
as Resistance for People of Color

Students from Karen Suyemoto’s Transnational
Cultural and Community Studies/Intr-D Empowerment and Advocacy:

Institutional racism
bars people of color from receiving appropriate care, having knowledge around
health, and accessing the resources needed while also creating a stigma in
communities of color that adds to the general stigma around mental health. This
event aims to provide people of color with the knowledge and tools to create
and/or shift their ability to access services for better health outcomes. Sponsored
by TCCS and Asian American Student Success Program.

This session focuses
on using personal stories as a way to advance reproductive justice and rights. Following
the showing of the short documentary “Names of Women,” the audience will have
the chance to interact with the filmmaker who will join us via Skype and to
engage in an open conversation about abortion stigma facilitated by Shoshanna
Ehrlich.

Ari Belathar, the
2016-2017 Poetry Fellow at the Writers’ Room of Boston.

An
empowerment-focused storytelling event focused on immigrant and refugee
experiences. Presented by Massmouth in collaboration with the International
Institute of New England. Sponsored by: Transnational
Cultural and Community Studies, UMB-UR-BEST.

7-8 Student
Activism: Using Research to Fight Workplace Discrimination (W-04-022)

Students from Sofya Aptekar’s Methods of
Sociological Research class in dialogue with Susan Moir, director of Labor
Resource Center. A
discussion of an ongoing applied research project on discrimination against
women and minorities in the construction industry in Springfield, MA

12-12:30 Bringing It
To You: Women's Health Care: Focus on spreading
awareness of local women-centered health care resources, especially clinics and
other services that serve low-income communities and people of color. Sheri Moccia, Zannie Duffy, Emily Soto, and
Veronice Lopes

12:30-1 Inclusive
Sexual Education in Boston Public Schools:Our focus is the improvement of inclusive Sexuality Education in
schools. Through meetings with teachers and administrators, we are promoting
the adoption of queer positive and sex positive sexuality and reproductive
health education at Boston Latin School.Kaitlyn Solares,
ShulpaThirukkovalur, Megan Alves, and Sav Sadowski

How are people
impacted by today's tumultuous political and social climate? How can we take
action for resistance without contributing to oppression? One answer begins
with an exploration of one's own social location. This workshop uses a
discussion activity to explore personal understandings of how our various personal
identities and experiences of privilege and oppression shape our work as
activists and consider how to increase effective action and coalition building.

3-4 The
Rise of “Pro-Life” Feminism and Other Threats to Abortion Rights in the Trump
Era

Shoshanna Ehrlich, Women’s and Gender
Studies Department.

From the resurgence
of campus “pro-life” feminist groups to threatened cuts to Planned Parenthood,
the Global Gag rule, and Trump’s commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the
right to safe and legal abortion is under attack. This session will provide an
overview of these and other current attacks on the constitutional right to
abortion that so many take for granted.

A workshop that explores intersectional approaches towards
developing coalitional consciousness and solidarity. Through group dialogue,
participants will nurture a sense of empowerment and solidarity by discussing challenges they have faced, how those obstacles have
made them feel and how identifying similar experiences among the group can
create a sense of unity.

Science
as Resistance is a conversation about how to empower women and students of
color as researchers and how to present science and biology in ways that resist
essentializing, acknowledge nature-nurture interactions,
and contribute to justice. Sponsored by CIT

5-6
Constructing the Enemy: Can We Unlearn Fear and Hate?Rajini Srikanth, Honors College and English

What
happens when particular categories of people are identified as the enemy and
the threat? How does such labeling affect a society’s structures and people’s
realities? What is the legacy of fear and hate?Can the United States ever stop constructing enemies?

6-8 Coping with Racism Related Stress (W-01-0010). A 2
part workshop (both Monday and Wed).
Continued from Monday.

Thursday,
April 27

9am
to 6pm

CC 2540 (unless otherwise indicated)

9-11 Coping
with Racism Related Stress. A 2 part workshop (both Tuesday and Thursday). Continued
from Tuesday.

12-1America Is Not the
First: Lessons From the Failed Democracies of Eastern Europe

Jozsef Kaldy and Zsuzsa KaldyDepartment of Psychology

Following the fall
of the Berlin Wall, for twenty years, Hungary was led by alternating left- and
right-wing governments. In 2010, a moderate right-wing party, with a
charismatic leader delivering a populist message, obtained a supermajority in
congress. Within a few years, they rewrote the constitution, changed the
election system, silenced the opposition and most critical media outlets, and
incited xenophobia against refugees, most of whom are travelling through
Hungary to reach other countries in Western Europe. We will discuss the broader
lessons that can and should be drawn from the examples of Eastern Europe, with
particular focus on Hungary.

At a time of
increased vulnerability for immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQ people, women, and
others and unprecedented degrees of polarization, how do we sensitively address
the fears and vulnerabilities of our students while creating a classroom
environment that encourages the expression of diverse views and civil
discourse? We will share effective practices for leading or moderating
challenging classroom discussions about systemic oppression, while expressing a
sense of solidarity with students from targeted groups. Sponsored by CIT

Ashley J. Bohrer (Hamilton College).
Drawing on over a decade of activist
organizing, Ashley J. Bohrer addresses organization building, skills
development, media for activists, coalition building, and much more. An
interactive, participatory workshop for anyone interested in taking their knowledge
of social justice and putting it into radical practice. Sponsored by Transnational Cultural and Community Studies.

Trabajadores), Gladys Vega (Chelsea Collaborative), and Heloisa
Galvao/ Lidia Ferreira (Brazilian Womens’ Group). This session explores the struggles by
Boston-area immigrant workers’ centers in the aftermath of the Trump election. Workers’
centers continue to organize for better wages and working conditions, but they
have also been forced to respond to an intensified assault on immigrant rights
since the election of Trump. Sponsored by UMass Boston Labor Center

12-12:30 Talking about sex and gender: Resources for Parents: Our
focus is cultivating gender, sex and sexuality awareness among parents. We are
compiling a list of relevant and easy-to-understand resources to share with
parents to facilitate productive and supportive conversations with their
children. Allie Clough, Jennifer Rass,
Becca Coppola, and Kayla Scibilo

12:30-1 Sexual Assault Risk Reduction for Residents of UMB Housing. Through
collaboration with the UMB Department of Student Housing, we aim to guide the
formation and implementation of student-centered sexual assault policies and
procedures as well as support student education on this issue. Kiara Hernandez,
Ellie Avery, Jennifer Cardoso, and Seleah Sterling

1-2 Environmental
Justice in East Boston

Maxwell Martin,
School for the Environment, Environmental Innovations Clinic

East Boston is an
Environmental Justice community due to the multiple and disproportionate
environmental burdens faced by its residents (EPA 2016). Presenting ongoing research on environmental
justice in East Boston, followed by a discussion of environmental justice
issues in the current era and brainstorming of strategies.

Wondering how to get
started? Confused by things like critiques of the Women's March as not
inclusive? This workshop will address personal understandings that support
effective activism. We will discuss strategies to increase the impact of your
activism, to ensure you are taking actions that truly support equity and
justice, and to work with the understandable emotions that come up as you
increase your awareness and make inevitable mistakes along the way. Sponsored
by UMB-UR-BEST, Clinical Psychology Program

An inside view of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s stand
against the powerful oil industry and its enablers in North Dakota government
and law enforcement. The NoDAPL resistance movement has inspired
environmentalists and social justice advocates, including trade unions, veterans organizations, churches and over 300 indigenous
groups from across the nation and beyond. Sponsored by Institute
for New England Native American Studies, Native American Indigenous Studies
Minor, Student Alliance for Indigenous Peoples in the Americas.

Join us as we
reflect together on the barriers first-generation, minority, lower-income,
working class, and immigrant/immigrant-background populations face in pursuing
higher education and how these barriers relate to systemic oppression. We will
discuss current movements, organizations and efforts to decrease barriers to
higher education and participants will be provided the opportunity to join
these actions.

5-6 Resisting Systemic
Oppression in Public Higher Education: Part Two: Building Sanctuary and
Solidarity

Hear from Boston Against the Trump Agenda (BATA) and the push for a
sanctuary campus; Coalition to Save UMB and the fight against budget cuts,
tuition hikes and layoffs; and the Coalition to Organize and Mobilize Boston Against
Trump and planned immigrant solidarity actions on May Day. We will discuss
linking up campus campaigns and off campus efforts.

If A Tree Falls chronicles the Earth Liberation Front,
former member Daniel McGowan's capture and trial, and his experiences in the
judicial and prison system. http://www.ifatreefallsfilm.com/Sponsored by Political Science, Women's and
Gender Studies, and the Human Rights Minor

Songs of Oppression
and Hope from around the world. The program will include African-American
Spirituals and Gospel Music, a South African Freedom Song, a Prayer of the
Children (from war-torn Yugoslavia, American Civil Rights anthems, and others.